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...served. And while that may been intended to assuage fears that President George W. Bush's southwestern tastes would come to dominate state functions, the truth is that serving fajitas (or perhaps some more esteemed Mexican entr?e) to a visiting Mexican leader would not be beyond the realm of probability in light of recent White House tradition. Because the State Dinner menu, for some bizarre reason, is often shaped more by the national cuisine of the guest than that of the host...
...real world--who needs it? Not the movies, not this season, when the true realm of the fantastic beckons so seductively. Great anticipations hover over two projects that bring to the screen the most cherished franchises of fantasy novels in the past half-century: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. Directors Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opens Nov. 16) and Peter Jackson (The Fellowship of the Ring, due Dec. 19) have been on a sacred, scary quest. Each director must feel like...
...Wilson is a senior doyen of science and, by his own admission, moving irresistibly into what he calls "the literary realm." It's not a bad place for him to be. Wilson has produced a scientific masterpiece in nearly every decade of his life. And in this time of crisis, our planet has never had more need for the observations and intuition of one of the world's great naturalists...
Peanut and raisin rewards have become the coins of Goldman-Rakic's realm. In a series of elegant experiments that combine memory tests with electrical recordings from brain tissue, she has learned, for example, that each part of the brain has its own short-term "scratch pad" in the frontal lobe. Within each of these areas, individual neurons are responsible for holding and processing highly specific pieces of information, like the memory of a particular face or voice...
...nuances of sound and voice, and felt incapable of picking them up when I finally tried. All of a sudden I notice all of the signs that say, “Do not touch!” in museums, in stores, all the taboos. I notice how often this realm is prohibited, and I understand a little more why I was responded to so guardedly in the library...